clearly, they have a bad relationship with israel. it doesn't accept it, it doesn't accept its way of its political order in terms of how it disenfranchises a large segment of its p population, and it is opposed to that. the islamic republic also has used in terms of its neighbors and how, how their orders are that are hostile to iran. it sees a lot of these political orders as hostile to it. but what we're trying to get across is what iran does to respond to what it sees as these threats is not to threaten to attack, is not to threaten to invade and is not to attack or invade. the islamic republic has never attacked or invaded any other country. that's not what it does. what it does is something even more powerful, something maybe even more to tent vis-a-vis the united states that we can't really compete with as we stay a conventional military power which is, first and foremost, it develops relationships with groups on the ground. those relationships have much to do with, and we argue mostly to do with, its soft power appeal, its app